# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S961
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138 .. SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

complete. The study, which was finished only by the end of J,
uary, 1953, revealed that the elementary school system (not in an
cases the Church) had lost 634 teachers of all types,. the lange
majority temporary teachers, from September, 1951, to Septemhc.
1952, and had a net gain of 199 classrooms — causing a demand f
833 new teachers in one year. Of these 833 teachers, Synod fur.
nished only a fraction over 40 per cent (339 persons), and the con.
gregations and District officials had to find almost:60 per cent (494
persons). The details of the study are given in Tables MI and Iv
Table I
Teacher Losses and Transfers
September, 1951, to September, 1952
Elementary Schools, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod

fad as 2 i
3 3 3 i a. ae 3
Type of Teachers & z a | 68 8 a 3 : i i
|
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ee3 | i
Installed Men — 32 13 3 3 13 1 65 125. 190
Women Graduates __.. 60 1 61 36 97
Men Stud, Teach. Coll. 10 . 37 47 3 50
Women Stud., T. Coll. 57 24 81 30 111
Other Luth. Colleges _ 100 15 1 116 36 152
* Reg: Women Teach. 131 4 1 136 26 162
Teaching Pastors 20 20 20
Emerg. Men Teachers 13 1 14 1 5
Emerg. Women Teach. 87 7 94 14 108

—
Totals ____ 510 13 3 92 14 2 634 199 271 905 274

* All steady women teachers are “regular women teachers,” includ-
ing women graduates and many women students who remain out teach-
ing; but here only those not trained by our teachers’ colleges are meant.

Installed men teachers constituted 44.7 per cent of the whole
teaching force in September, 1951. If the losses among them had
been as great as among the other teachers, they would have to show
a loss of 44.7 per cent of the total loss. But their loss was only a
trifle over 10 per cent, while the loss of the others was almost
90. per cent. It is this loss that causes the annual clamor for teachers.
(Table IIL.)

In spite of the 10-per-cent loss of installed men, their number
increased by 47 since September, 1951.

The resignation of 32 installed men is below the normal figure
of teacher and pastor resignations per year. It is only 6.2 per cent
of all teacher resignations, while the other teachers account for
93.8 per cent of the resignations. ,

The figure of 125 transfers of installed men is also moderate.
In some years it has been as high as 165 or 175.

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. Table IV
_ qqeachers New in the School System or in Their Positions
~ September, 1952
Elementary Schools, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod

_ . kd Es
2 @ Fy 3 co 5.
3 ne fz ge gf i a*
‘Type of Teachers 3s a5 ak ag :. &g
er ee ee
& 83 z wR a
~alled 105 17 122 125 247
‘omen eetuates —__— 56 2 58 36 94
Womerudents, Teach. Coll. 54 14 68 3 Tl
tne a reachers 131 131 26 157
Pastors Teaching —_ 10 10 10
Emergency Women Teach. 152 152 14-166
Totals _ 270 «69-s«494«833-s 4B «OATL:«s1104-s 32

—_——_———_ Replacements. 905
Total: 339 —_
‘ Net increase —. 199

theran Colleges: Winfield and St. Paul.
“ Qthtently former students secured as emergency help.

Table V
Classification of Teachers, 1952—1953
North America Only

Installed Men Teachers — => 14
\
t

Women Graduates, Teachers’ Colleges rr 173

1664
Total Graduates —--___-»_ SE

Men Students, Teachers’ Colleges —_.-__--_ 2 té=‘«é«~SYdC:“
Women Students, Teachers’ Colleges > AT

Men from Other Lutheran Colleges* = >sSSESSeFFFFSEFEStsté=«~*NOD
Women from Other Lutheran Colleges * —--_______.__ 277

Other Regular Women Teachers 8G
Pastors Teaching >»

Men Emergency Teachers SS
Women Emergency Teachers —.-____->->— TL

Non-graduates 1637

Total, North America 3301

* St. Louls, Springfield, Winfield, St.Paul, and non-synodical colleges —
Valparaiso, Mankato, etc. .

That 1952 was not an exceptional year, but a similar situation
obtained previously, is evident from the following facts: Losses
were evidently somewhat smaller because we had a smaller number
of temporary teachers. Institutional supply of teachers was also

smaller. Gain in classrooms was 684 from 1947 to 1951. Estimating: .

that teacher losses averaged 400 a year, the total losses for these
five years were 2,000. Add 684 classrooms gained, and the total